Beard v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

This conviction was for gaming, the fine imposed being $10. Appellant was running a saddlery shop, and back of the shop was a room where appellant slept and ate. His son (who was between twenty-five and thirty years of age) frequently stayed with him in this room. Appellant had a wife in Missouri, from whom he had been separated for twenty years. Appellant had some unmarried daughters living in Missouri, who occasionally visited him and slept in said room. At the time of the alleged offense his daughters were not there, nor had they been there for several months; nor have they…